Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their Redline leaders with bosses who would follow C.I.O. policies. The noisy arguments carried out the window of the C.I.O. headquarters overlooking the Blair House backyard, and were overhead by Harry Truman as he got out of his car. He paused a minute, listened to a few words, grinned, went...
...stations, but the Red railway administration, which by then had run in hundreds of strikebreakers and guards, seemed in no mood to give in to their demands. Said Union Official Christian Hanebuth: "We cannot fight on physically against their guns." But next day, 3,000 strikers and their sympathizers went right on fighting, tried to storm the railway station at the Berlin Zoo. Communist police fired on them, killing a 16-year-old boy. British authorities sharply demanded the withdrawal of the Red railway police. Cried one strike leader: "Be patient, fellows . . . We are reaching our goal...
...rich Po Valley and on the sunlit Roman plains, a strike call went out last week to 400,000 braccianti (landless farmhands). They wanted a nationwide contract, with better pay and job security, between their unions and the landowners. Months of collective bargaining had ended in deadlock-and Italy's most disturbing disorders since the Red riots of early...
...cities in trucks to patrol country roads, force the braccianti into the strike. At Molinella, northeast of Bologna, they ambushed farmhands going to the fields, tangled savagely with carabinieri who came to the rescue. In the melee, a Red woman worker was shot dead. Twenty-seven anti-Red workers went to the hospital. One moaned: "Will it never end? Can one never work in peace...
...better not be here when the celere [riot squads] start moving.' They went away and I stayed open...